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Encouraging to see a bit of honesty.

Downing Street parties were bad for democracy, admits Sajid Javid

Sajid Javid has admitted parties took place in Downing Street during lockdown and said they had been "damaging" to Britain's democracy.

The Health Secretary appeared to go further than Boris Johnson, who has sought to avoid referring to the events themselves while apologising for the "hurt" they had caused.

On Thursday, Mr Javid urged the public to wait for the findings of an official inquiry by Sue Gray, a senior civil servant, but condemned the parties as "completely wrong".

"We do now know there were some parties. We know that because some of the people that were involved and broke the rules have come forward to say so," he said.

"Of course things like this damage our democracy. From what we already know from the people who have come forward and apologised for the parties that took place, for example the one on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral, that was completely wrong.

“It was wrong in every single way. The way we now get through this is to get the facts out, get them on the table so we can all reach a judgment ourselves."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...?ocid=msedgntp